The second bit of bad news came to me in the early afternoon on Tuesday.Melanie came and stood in my office while I was finishing up a phone call to o...r plant in Mexico. She’d come in that way often, usually when there was a phone call or visitor we hadn’t expected, so I thought little of the interruption. I waved her in.After I hung up, Melanie said, “Lucas is here. He needs to see you and says it’s important.” I detected a raw edge to her voice; something was wrong. She knew what Lucas had to. She also noticed that the girls ranged from stark naked to fully dressed. One of the naked girls was bent over a teacher's desk, her red-striped bottom facing the class. Another stood tearfully, head bowed, hands at her sides, while the teacher was saying something to her. Linda was determined that some things would change at that school.Eventually, her classmates were dismissed. She walked up behind Victoria, linked arms with her, and began in conversational tones "So, are you going to show me. It is near evening now, and rabbits will be out. I say to her I will find another. Irving says he has never before eaten rabbit, but Linda tells him it will be good food as I leave with sling. We will have late dinner, rabbit requires long cooking, but if I can find soon there will still be time.When I return with rabbit they once more speak of other things. I go to kitchen to make butcher of both rabbits and I hear them speak as I do this.“Irving, a polygraph’s out of the question, who do you. ”Jeff tried to keep his mind on Christina, but what had happened with Shelly ate at him. Christina either didn’t notice or blamed his moodiness on her impending departure.Carlos gave Jeff a good-natured grilling about his future as if he was really dating Christina. Jeff talked about his love of computers and his desire to major in computer science in the fall. Then Carlos brought up sports. They bantered back and forth about the relative merits of the Miami Dolphins and the Houston Texans..